OK, that was lazy of me. In mitigation I was interested to hear what normal people thought of the HTC upgrade (I have an HTC and like sense) rather than a load of fanboi hyperbole and iPhone comparisons.

TBH, I don't normally like 'JFGI' as it breaks the conversation, but in this case there's so many changes that it'd have been a very long answer.

Things I'm liking, off the top of my head. It's considerably faster; the face recognition security is ace; the layout of the UI is more intuitive; the Sense lockscreen apps mirror a new quicklaunch bar on the desktop; folders are much more sensibly implemented; customisable home screens (ie, you can add / remove them).

Just checked Sony. "Later this month" although they're trying to get round RAM issues.

And you'l have to opt in and choose the upgrade: "Sony wants users to make a "conscious and informed decision to upgrade, so that you continue to enjoy optimum experiences from your Xperia smartphone.""

imho all these manufacturer upgrades are not really worth bothering with.

The main improvement in android 4 over previous version is the quality of the interface, which most manufacturers replace with their own 'skins' (eg htc sense, samsung touchwiz), making the upgrade pretty pointless as far as I can see.

got 4.0.3 for the galaxy S2 on O2 last week (the official release too!)
slightly disappointed that flash didn't seem to work in the stock browser any more, and despite reading that the 11.1 upgrade fixed that, it won't download/install from google play.
still, this is sorted thanks to google chrome running nicely on my phone instead...

dickbarton, S2 so far only has it on three and O2. vodafone is saying "this month", no official release date confirmed for orange, t-mobile or sim free as yet. well, that was true as of the weekend, i stopped looking once i knew O2 had released it!